Fried Egg Golf Club

Fried Egg Golf is the closest thing to a house organ for the way these notes think about the game. What began as Andy Johnson’s writing on golf-course architecture has grown into a media operation whose two abiding causes are exactly ours on the editorial side: that the design of a course is half of what makes it worth playing, and that the country’s affordable, historic municipal golf is worth fighting for. Its coverage of the San Francisco munis and places like Goat Hill Park is advocacy as much as journalism, and it is the right kind of advocacy—for the common course, not the exclusive one.

The members’ club is the community that has grown up around that work. We count it kin for the politics of the thing: Fried Egg isn’t a society playing at being one, but the conviction runs the same way—that golf is at its best cheap, walkable, well-designed, and open. That belongs squarely on the editorial side of the house, alongside The Golfer’s Journal, where the C&RBGC’s notes-side sympathies live.